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History. Conference affiliations. Georgia was a founding member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, one of the first collegiate athletic conferences formed in the United States. Georgia participated in the SIAA from its establishment in 1895 until 1921.
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- Kirby Smart, 8th season, 87–15 (.853)
The first football team of 1892. Herty Field was Georgia's first football venue. It was used until 1911. (photo October 2005) Georgia's football program began in 1892, when Dr. Charles Herty, a chemistry professor and former player at Johns Hopkins, assembled a team and arranged a game against Mercer University on January 30, 1892.
The 92,746 seat Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the home of the Georgia football team. The white, and now also brown Bulldog is UGA's mascot and is properly known as the late "Uga VIII", now "Uga X", previously known as "Que". [15] The Bulldogs play in the tradition-rich Southeastern Conference .
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May 20, 2005 · Sanford Stadium. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution. History. Georgia played its first football game on January 25, 1892, in Athens against Mercer University. Nearly a month later, on February 20, UGA journeyed to Atlanta to play Auburn University’s team, from Auburn, Alabama.
Beginnings: 1892-1896. When the football team at the University of Georgia was formed in January 1892, it was the first of its kind in the Deep South. Over the course of the next twenty-five years – until the U.S. entry into the First World War in April 1917 brought a temporary end to the football program – the fortunes of the University ...
Feb 2, 2023 · Given Georgia’s history of excellence in college football dating back to 1892, it was not an easy task to assemble a list of the ten greatest teams in program history. But after winning...
Sep 2, 2023 · Believe it or not, there was a time when UGA's football team took to the gridiron without their canine nickname. As explained by the school's library, the football program was born in 1892.
